When I partially dismantled my K747 knitting machine I wasn’t able to clean it out much because I couldn’t get it completely opened up. I was thrilled to find a copy of the Service Manual as a free PDF, and can’t wait until I have a spare weekend to get in there are de-gunk it.

When I first got the machine, I had no idea what model it was. Thankfully the folks at Newton Knits did, and were able to guide me to the right replacement sponge bar and needles, as well as a copy of the instruction manual.

I’ve noticed that there are a ton of people selling PDFs of the scanned manuals, for a king’s ransom. One on eBay was $15 plus $4 shipping for a CD with the PDF on it. Mind you this is a PDF that the seller didn’t even author, they just scanned the book. Someone else holds the copyright.

I was able to find the instruction manual for the lace carriage as a free PDF, which led me to copies of the service manual and instruction manual for the machine itself. I’m making them available here for anyone who so desires them, free of charge.

I have removed all needles from knitting machine and got a new sponge bar. Cannot get needles back into A position so have tried to remove housing to see where theneedles go. Can’t get top off, have something holding it, instruction show to remove cap, where is this cap? Thanks

Hi Carlene,
Is yours a 747? There are a couple sneaky screws, in particular one hiding under the pattern selector dials. You’ve got to pop off the cover to expose them. I don’t have mine nearby right now, but if you look at the diagram posted above it shows where a number of the cap screws are.

Thank you for sharing your manuals! I’ve added them to the Toyota Group’s Resource Library. Our yahoo group gets all kinds of questions on this particular model of Toyota machine and these manuals will help them out immensely.

Technically the manuals are still copyright to Toyota, but I haven’t gotten the impression they care (particularly if you’re not selling the manual). My policy has been to offer old manuals like these freely and if the copyright holder asks me to take it down I will.

I used to use a knitting machine many years ago, been looking for one for a while now and by the grace of god i now have one, Toyota k747, i thought once i set it up it would all come flooding back, how wrong was i, i have no idea how to thread it up, the manual was great for setting the actual machine up but i cant make head or tail of the threading instructions, CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

Uargh, I have the same machine. I changed the sponge on the sponge bar and can’t get the damn thing back. There must be some trick to that, the manual doesn’t help. If you have experience on this type of a quirk, plz let me know. Best, Hanna

Oh, thanks for your reply! 🙂
It’s not the needles. There’s an obstruction of some sort in the channel where the sponge bar should go. They look like a lids of some sort, positioned 25cm from the edges. The sponge bar does go through as is because of the obstacles – it does when it’s lifted a little from above. However if forced, the sponge bar will be too high and needles won’t glide where the lid is.

I wonder if there’s a screw or setting of some sort somewhere I’m missing out. I guess I’d better open up the machine next to find out what’s up. 🙁

This looks suspiciously like my friend’s Singer S747 which she purchased in South Africa in the early sixties. The gorgeous colour matches, and the instruction books look identical save for the Singer/Toyota labels!

Any chance you have (or can find) the instructions for the Ribber 450?

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